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Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast

Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast

De: Fin Dwyer & Damian Shiels
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3,000 miles of ocean separate Ireland from the USA, but both countries share a deep and intertwined history. Links between North America and Ireland predate Columbus, stretching back over 1,000 years. Since then, Irish people have shaped the history of the United States. From Ann 'Goody' Glover, who was hanged as a witch in Boston in the 17th century, to JFK, the story of the Irish in the US is fascinating. Join historians Damian Sheils and Fin Dwyer as they join forces to explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of Irish American history.


In Season 1 Fin and Damian explore fascinating topics including

  • Who was the first Irish person to cross the Atlantic?
  • The Story of Goody Glover who was hanged as a witch in Boston.
  • What was it like to emigrate during the Great Famine of the 1840s?
  • How Irish people shaped the US Civil War?


And much more...


Subscribe and join Fin and Damian on this fascinating journey through our history.

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Episodios
  • Ben Franklin's Forgotten Trip to Ireland

    Ben Franklin's Forgotten Trip to Ireland
    Dec 3 2025

    In 1771 Benjamin Franklin spent more than six weeks traveling through Ireland at a moment when tensions between Britain and her colonies were rising. In this episode Damian and Fin trace his route from Dublin through the Irish countryside and explore the people he met and the conditions he witnessed. Despite being laid low with food poisoning on his first day he quickly became absorbed in what he saw. The poverty of rural Ireland the restrictions placed on Irish trade and the political frustrations of the Protestant elite all left a deep impression on him. These experiences helped shape the ideas he carried back to America and influenced his thinking in the years before the Revolution.


    Further Reading

    Carla Mulford, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

    James B. Nolan, Benjamin Franklin: In Scotland and Ireland 1759 and 1771

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  • Irish Mountain Men: Pioneers of the American West?

    Irish Mountain Men: Pioneers of the American West?
    Nov 24 2025
    One of the most enduring stereotypes of early US history is the Mountain Man. This figure often appears as the tough and resourceful frontiersman familiar from films like The Revenant. The stereotype is rooted in fact and in recent months Damian has been researching the Irish men who found themselves in the American West during the early nineteenth century. Fin and Damian explore this history along with who these men were and what brought them into the Rocky Mountains. They also look at how they interacted with Native American tribes in the region.

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  • Clare to Connecticut: One Family’s Escape from the Great Hunger

    Clare to Connecticut: One Family’s Escape from the Great Hunger
    Nov 17 2025

    What can a micro-history of emigration, the story of a single townland, or even a single family, reveal about the wider Irish emigrant experience? In this episode, we trace the remarkable journey of the Clune family of Tyredagh Upper, Co. Clare, whose multigenerational migration to Norwalk, Connecticut offers insight into how local origins shaped settlement patterns in America.


    We’re joined by Dr. Jane Halloran, historian, genealogist, and founder of Dalcassian Origins, to discuss her research on this chain migration and the powerful community networks that carried families like the Clunes across the Atlantic. Through their story, we uncover how one family’s path could influence patterns of migration from Ireland, and shed light on the wider 19th and early 20th century Irish emigrant experience.


    Further Reading

    Dr Jane Halloran Dalcassian Origins: http://www.dalcassianorigins.com/


    Tyderagh Upper: https://www.townlands.ie/clare/tulla-upper/tulla/newgrove/tyredagh-upper/


    Norwalk Connecticut: https://www.townlands.ie/clare/tulla-upper/tulla/newgrove/tyredagh-upper/

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I enjoyed Season 1 very much - Fin and Damian proved very informed, likable, and skilled in exposing facets of the Transatlantic journey of the Irish. Well worth the journey!

Bhain mé an-taitneamh as Séasúr 1 - bhí Fin agus Damian an-eolach, sothuigthe agus oilte ar ghnéithe de thuras Trasatlantach na nÉireannach a nochtadh. Is fiú an turas!

Well worth the journey// Is fiú an turas!

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